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AT&T Changes TOS to Limit Mobile Video
NewTeeVee —
... plans to limit data services. The move effectively declares that AT&T doesn’t have to transfer third-party video over its wireless network. This would negatively impact Sling mobile applications, including its planned iPhone release, and potentially 3G video-streaming apps like CBS’s for TV.com. It also means AT&T isn’t abiding by net neutrality standards common for wired networks on its 3G wireless network.
As the Public Knowledge Policy Blog points out, the AT&T Wireless terms of service now explicitly prohibit “downloading ...
AT&T Decides Net Neutrality Won’t Work for Wireless [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... to go with its subsidized netbooks, AT&T has also changed its terms of service in a way that appears to limit video on its wireless network. As the Public Knowledge Policy Blog points out, the ...
Linkpost | 4.3.2009
TechBlog —
... - Soon available for watching on the iPhone itself. • AT&T Quietly Updates its Wireless Plans - Limits mobile video . . . at least, for services other than its own. • ...
AT&T's Lame New Terms of Service Hate Mobile Video From Sling and P2P [At&t]
Gizmodo —
That AT&T;'s new terms of service for wireless frowns on snagging video over P2P isn't surprising, but the fact that it effectively prohibits Slinging video to phones is mildly shocking and definitely lame. Here's the dirty clause, uncovered by Public Knowledge: This means, by way of example only, that checking email, surfing the Internet, downloading legally acquired songs, and/or visiting corporate intranets is permitted, but downloading movies using P2P file sharing services, customer initiated redirection of television or other video ...
AT&T Wireless changes terms of service to forbid video streaming, filesharing, data tethering
MacDailyNews —
... where a Chicago-based AT subscriber was charged international rates for viewing a football game over the service, generating a bill of $28,000. It should be noted that this was an error since the consumer was in Miami and not at sea, yet AT responds as if the billing was justified and now starts revising the TOS to prohibit the activity!" Full article here . Dong Ngo reports for CNET, "Personally, I have the unlimited data plan on my iPhone 3G, but I've almost never streamed anything via the 3G connection, mainly because it is just not possible most of the time in San ...
AT&T Loses its Mind with New TOS
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
... could also be a no-no with its ability to "maintain continuous active internet connections when a computer's connection would otherwise be idle..." There is a whole host of apps this could potentially hurt. Robb Topolski over at Public Knowledge , the person that shared AT&T's TOS changes with the Internet, believes this may have to do with the bad press AT&T garnered when it charged an AT&T wireless internet subscriber $28,000 to watch a football game with the service. It turns out the customer was in Miami and not out to sea which would have justified the worlds most ...
AT&T Cracks Down On Streaming Some Services
mocoNews —
... to prohibit fixed devices from streaming over its wireless network, like viewing video over the Slingbox. Public Knowledge picked it up, noting a change to the following paragraph (in bold): "This means, by way of example only, that checking email, surfing the Internet, downloading legally acquired songs, and/or visiting corporate intranets is permitted, but downloading movies using P2P file sharing services, customer initiated redirection of television or other video or audio signals via any technology from a fixed location to a mobile device, ...
AT&T Changes ToS To Exclude Restreaming
mocoNews —
... to disallow streaming from fixed devices over its wireless network, eg Slingbox. Public Knowledge picked it up, noting a change to the following paragraph (in bold): "This means, by way of example only, that checking email, surfing the Internet, downloading legally acquired songs, and/or visiting corporate intranets is permitted, but downloading movies using P2P file sharing services, customer initiated redirection of television or other video or audio signals via any technology from a fixed location to a mobile device, web broadcasting, and/or ...
AT&T Wireless Bans Slingboxes
Zatz Not Funny! —
AT&T Wireless has pretty explicitly dropped the hammer on Slingbox owners, amongst others, via their revised terms of service:
customer initiated redirection of television [...] to a mobile device [...] is prohibited
Some speculate this language is in response to oversized and unintentional roaming fees. Others believe AT&T has “oversold” or is approaching their network capacity and this is a way free up bandwidth. I have a more pessimistic, Net non-Neutrality ...
AT&T updates wireless plans, prohibits Slingbox
The Apple Core —
... http://www.electricpig.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/iphone-slingplayer-2.jpg Public Knowledge’s Robb Topolsky reports that AT&T Wireless quietly changed its ...
SlingPlayer for iPhone: Another One Bites The Dust?
Today @ PC World —
... , then it might actually make it in the App Store. Meanwhile, another possible reason for SlingPlayer's ban from the App Store could be AT&T's speculated plans for its own mobile video services. The wireless carrier silently changed its terms of service at the end of March, basically prohibiting services like Sling is offering from its network. But if AT&T won't get to ...
AT&T to blame for Sling's Wifi-only usage
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... According to PublicKnowledge, AT&T changed its terms for computers, not phones, to prohibit the use of streaming media like Sling. According to the statement, AT&T considers the iPhone to be a computer. All other smartphones which currently run Slingplayer apparently don't make this grade. ...
